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FEBRUARY. OF ee reer eee aE EVENING “WO LD; “SATURDAY, f Harry Thaw’s Ordeal ea Forgotten in the Terrible Tragedy Of the. Young Wife Who Seeks to Save His Lite by Baring Her Soul 4b Is the Woman Who Is on the Rack, TWO POSES OF EVELYN NESBIT THAW AS WITNESS Sketehed in Court Especially for Lhe-Evening World by ARTIST. PERLEY. Sn and Nixola Greeley-Smith Tells Evening World Readers She Believes Her Story. True HER ATONEMENT COMPLETE | FOR SORROW SHE BROUGHT. ay. Nixcola Greeleyr~Smith. OR: two days the Setenaath it in he Thaw: case, has been for- | “Pight of Harry} tertible tragedy of the girl Evelyn; who bared‘ her soul to-save-him.| In all our pity for the wife, have we realized the ordeal_ofthe*husband? | | { for the man who was fired to mur- der by-Eyelyn Thaw’s story to sit \_passively_incourt_and hear it re- ; told? E od More than once during that ter- the man who heard it with staring} eyes—and—writhing-—Jips—was_about! to leap to his feet and, forgetful of | his fate that hung upon the nar-| exsj7__rative, force the pale, resolute girl} a who tald_it fo desist. More than] once Tthought that-but-for-the in—- would make some demonstration in, t wirord orrerix-srer-x, ihe court-room. | f Perhaps only the conscionsnesa that eny outburst CAIN be regarded) ws deliberately planned for {ls effect on the jury restrained him. There dof Hyelyn Thaw's confession that {t was a po genuine -thatcynics air Bere those in court whe “fine piece of acting—and na, emotion may be not be found to question it! 4 t Have you eyer seen Bernhardt in “La Tosca?” At any rate, you i “know the great scene where Scarpia wins a woman to bis will by sending, ] her lover to the torture chamber, racking her soul with his anguished/ yertes, till she can bear nv-more. And you have never questioned that tn) ‘the ordeal the woman suilered more. WOMAN WHOIS ON THE RACK. In the equally terrible tragedy being enacted in Judge Fitzgerald's. > 2ourt tt tsthe-woman-who-is-on-the-mek—the-husband-who-watches 4 pea, Sagony—and=perhaps-enduyos. a-greater. agony-than-she.-— FP here—can—be-nro—qnestion—of-Herry—Thaw's— great—love—for—his wtte,| = This peer, misguided -ange!,”” whose wings were-tralled in- the dark ooze of the Tenderloin ro early. i *- Lova,—tenderness,_respect for her {s breathed in every _lne_of.tho strange, rambling, incolerent letters he wrote her, And the strength of. Tthat love can be the only measure, of the torture he endured ASIDE] her ~ haiory. aes ea } Perhaps, though, he reallzed that in the hushed silence of the awful) \ ‘moment when Evelyn Thaw’s slain innacence rose from its tomb to bear. beterne] witness aguimt tx suycr all Indlvidualitles were merged, all identtitied Tost; We were no longer men and women in that room. Words 'fell-on women's ears that they had never heard, Vice stalked in naked) |hideousness before them, yet they were not ashamed, They did not shrink! | trom” the men who heard ft-ant-xaw thest horrors too: They had tor} goiten .tham. Before: that tragedy. of ‘outraged womanhood, con¥entlans. Irere swept away. And cach imu, each” woman Sh (he court-room heard iEvelyn’s ‘Thaw’s mary ina its lt= wore iaddressedital tem@alonese Ana they, ‘pelieved ft. Later doubts may have crept into rome minds, questions of. ‘probability may have assailed them. But for one moment every cna thought it true. BELIEVES HER STORY TRUE, estboudionst| “After nwo days think tt truet ace + But-it-it-were not-truc? What of it? Perbaps there are sublime i s&s Weil-an.cublime truths! Ju uny-case, the. girl's. ordeal cwas:-just—ay ‘great, and her atonement to Harry Thaw for_any sorrow she may hava forought upon him as complete. In that atonement her new soul was . | porn.Whatever Evelyn Thaw may have done in the past Js blotted out, The hour of her agony {s not yet over. Yesterday her testimony was! plong lhter and less. horrible Hnes_ js But her story {s not yet fully told. On Monday sho must_resume Jt_ “Sater she must face Mr, Jerome's —cross-examination-He-will-he—rery} <Tgentie-with hers but relentless. 1 don’t think, by her testimony, he wit! i jth able to shake her story, though {1 1s possible Other witnesses he intend: | t0-eaTl-may do-s0, : Evelyn Thaw, in my anions iF i ‘he Je charmingly “geteventiai= to-him. When ake uis up her two inant Sinands on either side of her mouth, at right dngleg With ber pale cheeks, | and, leaning toward him. whispers a suppressed name {n his ear, you would think-them (se fest friends in the world. You would never igunaat that itis the-man’s duty.to try to send the \oman’s husband to the clec-! tric chair, and that she fs bending every energy to save him, Not before Tuesday, {t 1s thought, will the battle for Marry Thaw’'s Ufo. begin, and meantime Mr. drone wd Evelyn “Thaw, the nian who: would Westroy and the woman who must delly smile at each oth Of course,-you want a girl to wash When Monday comes jaround; » Than ‘those who answer World “Help Wants" No better can be found, ew “F907. : = goes Thawris. * overshadowed bythe mora] * Do we feel fully wHat it must be!” rible recital it seemed to, me—that}- --texpasition of his lawyers, Thaw. “HL BACK, FIRES: HOT SHOT ~ AL ROOSEVELT iriver Declares Presi oh Is Deetiving tle Pao! About Panama Canal. RIN HAWAIL INTERESTS JAPAN. Says Tokio in} pointed Sane on RUSSIAN a = TERRORISTS ARE ~ CAUGHT IN AAD “Headquarters Gr mate ~ Against Notables in -emale University. = oan po etrs to-them ws a tific toward Innocent ehijdrer land which has beca y Slonaries anid others ¢ possesved the only the only true Ge wus tar nd doubt been amarting under the asaiimed-sepre + of Christian nations ant now to find « an occurence amid | versity CRUSHED 10 DEATH "IN THE ZTE \ George Rehin, Hundred and ii wan Instantly work Nos. working around pasion of an Inf oa rushed to hia alatance Too late to, save hl PAY: body was taken to the Old Blip| ede ar ian CURED ING TO 14 1 SEVEN SUFFOCKTE. WHILE TRAPPED IN + BURNING MINE Rescuers. Overcome— All-Night Attempt = Rescue Victims. vening World.) ure Park &Tilford Tea Facts No. 3 Avoid the general custom’ of blending "inferior Teas with those of higher. grade. The finest pickings selected are always sold at_low- est prices in: their ori- ginal purily and_excel- lence. 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